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[26 January 2024, Brussels] Disappointed by the most recent developments in these last weeks of negotiations on the first-ever EU law to combat violence against women, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) sent a letter to the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

EWL members across Europe are outraged by the disgraceful decision of the Council of the EU, led by the Belgian Presidency, to persist in blocking a consent-based definition of rape (based on the standards of the Istanbul Convention) in the proposed Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence.

While EWL acknowledges that the Belgian Presidency might have tried extensively to save the article on a consent-based definition of rape in the Directive before the end of the political mandate, we are extremely disappointed about this outcome and dismayed given the negative impact that this decision will have on the lives of women’s and …

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